Beautiful CookbooksBetül Tunç walks you through Turkuaz Kitchen, 85 doughs both traditional and invented, each one tasting like her snowy childhood in Erzurum and the home kitchen she's building now.
Turkish cooking here spans dough-based baking and a full reference of regional dishes, then widens into the shared eastern Mediterranean table that stretches toward Persian traditions.
We curated 5 books for this guide:
Betül Tunç walks you through Turkuaz Kitchen, 85 doughs both traditional and invented, each one tasting like her snowy childhood in Erzurum and the home kitchen she's building now.
Bottom of the Pot by Naz Deravian opens a world of saffron, dried limes, and the homecoming only rice can offer.
The Turkish Cookbook by Musa Dagdeviren and Toby Glanville brings 550 recipes home—each one tasting like Turkey's whole magnificent story, from regional treasures to the global classics that never age.
Yasmin Khan brings dill, dates, and the stories that travel with them across Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus in Ripe Figs, a collection of recipes rooted in the eastern Mediterranean's moving history of trade, migration, and connection.
Zaytinya by José Andrés brings crispy vegetables, spiced seafood, grilled kebabs, and warm pita to your table—the kind of food that tastes like the Eastern Mediterranean and begs to be shared.
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Updated August 2026